Russian Permanent Representative to the UN: Western countries are making excuses to refuse participation in the reconstruction of Syria

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, stressed that the Western countries refuse to participate in the reconstruction of Syria under false pretexts.

“We noticed in the interventions of some of our partners that they put forward new conditions for the reconstruction of Syria while they had  talked previously that the condition is the formation of a committee to discuss the constitution, but now we see new pretexts,” Nebenzya told Russia Today after the meeting of the UNSC on Syria.

During the meeting of the UN Security Council, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pederson announced that the Constitution Discussion Committee will hold its first meeting in Geneva on October 30.

The UN’s Permanent Representative of Syria, Dr. Bashar Al-Jaafari, stressed during the meeting that the formation of a committee to discuss the constitution and agree on terms of reference and on the basis of its work by Syrians away from any external interference is considered a national success in order to overcome the obstacles laid down by countries whose policies are against the benefits of the Syrian people and that wish to prolong the crisis and hinder the political solution.

Inas Abdulkareem